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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Dec 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Dec. 13 AFPN 13 Dec 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Dec. 13.
• Police, Soldiers Respond to Explosions Near Baghdad Mosques AFPS 13 Dec 2006 -- Iraqi police responded to several explosions at both Sunni and Shiite mosques in Baghdad today.
• Stryker Brigade Ceremony Focuses on Accomplishments, Sacrifices AFPS 13 Dec 2006 -- Some 4,000 members of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team gathered here yesterday to celebrate their accomplishments during 16 months in Iraq and mourn their losses as they uncased the unit’s colors during a stirring redeployment ceremony.
• U.S. to Increase Role of Military Transition Teams AFPS 13 Dec 2006 -- To speed the development of Iraqi security forces, the United States is accelerating its use of military, police and border transition teams, a coalition spokesman in Baghdad said today.
• Karzai Accuses Pakistan of Directly Supporting Taleban Insurgents VOA 13 Dec 2006 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan's government of directly supporting Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan.

Defense Policy / Programs

• U.S. Policy Aims To Safeguard, Expand Peaceful Use of Space Washington File 13 Dec 2006 -- The United States is committed to safeguarding and expanding the peaceful uses of space, a senior State Department official says.
• Army Moving Quickly to Equip and Reset Force Army News Release 13 Dec 2006 -- The Army's current plan to equip and reset the force is ahead of schedule. With the entire $17.1 billion supplemental allocated by Congress at the beginning of fiscal year 2007, the Army has obligated $9.8 billion for reset-$4 billion has gone for depot and field-level repair, while $5.8 billion has been allocated for new procurements.
• Sea Trials for Tortuga Symbolizes Successful SRA Navy NewsStand 13 Dec 2006 -- After completing a successful selective restricted availability (SRA) period, Sailors aboard USS Tortuga (LSD 46) brought the dock landing ship back to life Dec. 6 and set out to sea for an extensive sea trial in the vicinity of its forward-deployed home of Sasebo, Japan.
• CIWS Live-Fire Exercise Proves Systems’ Worth Navy NewsStand 13 Dec 2006 -- They’re part of USS Kitty Hawk’s (CV 63) last line of defense, and one of the ship’s two Close-in Weapons Systems (CIWS) proved its value by “killing” a towed drone Dec. 2 during the system’s first live-fire targeting exercise in more than three and a half years.
• Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 12 Dec 2006
• Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 13 Dec 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for December 13, 2006
• Eurocopter hands over the first three NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopters to the German Army EADS 13 Dec 2006 -- The first three latest-generation NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopters (TTH) were handed over to the German Army at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth facility in the presence of a large group of guests from the German Federal Ministry of Defence, the Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement, NAHEMA (NATO Helicopter Management Agency) as well as the German Army on December 13th, 2006
• SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT SIGNS CONTRACT FOR MORE T-50 GOLDEN EAGLE TRAINERS Lockheed Martin 13 Dec 2006 -- The Government of South Korea has signed a contract with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) for approximately 50 additional T-50 and TA-50 Golden Eagle advanced jet trainers bringing, the total number of T-50s ordered by South Korea to more than 70.
• BAE SYSTEMS AND ARMY DEPOT SIGN PRODUCT SUPPORT PARTNERSHIP BAE Systems 13 Dec 2006 -- BAE Systems and the Tobyhanna Army Depot today signed a partnership agreement to better provide the Army with cost-effective weapon systems, support, and rapid product improvements.

Other Conflicts

• U.N. Human Rights Council Will Dispatch Mission to Darfur Washington File 13 Dec 2006 -- The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed December 13 to send a high-level mission to report on human rights abuses in Darfur, where violence, killings and rape have caused an estimated 2 million people to flee their homes over the past four years.
• Somalia: UN envoy calls on warring sides to return to peace talks UN News Centre 13 Dec 2006 -- The top United Nations envoy for Somalia today appealed to the warring parties to settle their differences peacefully as the impoverished African country, already torn apart by 16 years of factional fighting, faced the additional challenge of devastating floods that have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people.
• Palestinian Gunmen Assassinate Hamas-Affiliated Judge VOA 13 Dec 2006 -- A judge is the latest victim of Palestinian factional fighting in the Gaza Strip
• Chad's Army, Rebels Claim Victory After Major Fighting VOA 13 Dec 2006 -- Chad's army says it has annihilated rebels following major fighting in the east, but rebels deny the claim
• ISRAEL-OPT: Court overturns Israel’s intifada law IRIN 13 Dec 2006 -- Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned a controversial Israeli law banning Palestinians from claiming compensation for harm suffered at the hands of soldiers.
• UGANDA: Northern situation improving, but IDPs still reluctant to go home IRIN 13 Dec 2006 -- The security situation in northern Uganda has improved, allowing hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people to return to their villages, but many others are still apprehensive and see the camps as safer than home, the United Nations said.
• SOMALIA: Bid to avert all-out war IRIN 13 Dec 2006 -- The international community is trying to avert an all-out war in Somalia amid reports that forces of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) are massing in the south of the country, in anticipation of a showdown with forces of the Transitional Federal Government, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
• UGANDA: Peace talks set to resume IRIN 13 Dec 2006 -- Peace talks aimed at ending two decades of conflict in northern Uganda are due to resume in the southern Sudanese capital, Juba, on Thursday, two weeks after the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) announced it was pulling out after accusing the government of violating a ceasefire agreement.
• Gunmen in Gaza Kill Hamas-Linked Judge VOA 13 Dec 2006 -- Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a Hamas-linked judge in the Gaza Strip, at a time of escalating tensions between Palestinian factions.
• Ethiopia Convicts Mengistu of Genocide VOA 13 Dec 2006 -- Fifteen years after finding sanctuary in Zimbabwe, deposed Ethiopian leader Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam has been convicted by an Ethiopian court on charges of genocide

News Reports

• U.N. Security Council Condemns Attempts To Destabilize Lebanon Washington File 13 Dec 2006 -- The U.N. Security Council December 12 condemned any attempt to destabilize Lebanon and reiterated its "full support for the legitimate and democratically elected government."
• Ivory Coast Army Alleges Coup Plot VOA 13 Dec 2006 -- The army in Ivory Coast has said some of its officers have been contacted to join a coup against President Laurent this week